Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

by Philip K. Dick

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

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Awards and honors

John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1975)

Hugo Nominee (Novel, 1975)

Nebula Nominee (Novel, 1974)

Epigraph

Flow my tears, fall from your springs!

Exiled forever, let me mourn;

Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,

There let me live forlorn.

(Part One)

Down, vain lights, shine you no more!

No nights are black enough for those

That in despair their lost fortunes deplore.

Light doth but shame disclose.

(Part Two)

Never may my woes be relieved,

Since pity is fled;

And tears and sights and groans my weary days

Of all joys have deprived.

(Part Three)

Dedication

The love in this novel is for Tessa,

and the love in me is for her, too.

She is my little song.

First words

On Tuesday, October 11, 1988, the Jason Taverner Show ran thirty seconds short.

Quotations

"Listen," he said, haltingly. "I'm going to tell you something and I want you to listen carefully. You belong in a prison for the criminally insane."

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